Re: XHR giving 405

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: XHR giving 405
Date	2014-08-07 21:13 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> John Harris […] writes:
>> […] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote:
>>> Likewise, the quotation character, at least the last one, should be
>>> followed by space (corrected by me above, but not below).
>> 
>> I don't see why it should but I've changed the setting anyway. Now my
>> News program writes > > instead of >>  :-(  This makes lines in
>> prolific threads go over the desired 80 char maximum.
> 
> That's a shame.  If it does not have a setting for spacing only the
> first time some text is quoted, I don't think I'd bother.

Because of quotations, the recommendation is to set the word-wrap at 72 to 
78 characters per line (I have currently set it to 76, but it can be 
temporarily disabled).  The less characters per line in the original text, 
the more quotation levels can be added without reformatting quotations, 
trimming/summarizing them aside.  (There is no consensus on whether 
quotations should be reformatted to fit the 80-characters limit or not;
I think they should, with few exceptions, and I do so.)

Another newsreader setting that leads to less readable threads is omitting 
quotation characters for otherwise empty quoted lines, causing jumps in the 
quotation levels that are particularly disturbing if different colors or 
shades of a color are used to format different quotation levels.

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XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-31 15:34 +1000
  Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-31 16:45 +1000
    Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-31 09:58 +0200
    Re: XHR giving 405 Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-08-01 11:20 -0700
  Re: XHR giving 405 JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-07-31 14:20 +0700
    Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 00:08 +0200
      Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-03 15:10 +1000
        Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 09:43 +0200
          Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-03 19:16 +1000
            Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 19:16 +0200
              Re: XHR giving 405 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-04 07:29 +1000
      Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-03 16:46 +0100
        Re: XHR giving 405 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-03 16:51 +0100
        Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-03 18:39 +0200
          Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-04 15:08 +0100
            Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-04 19:12 +0200
              Re: XHR giving 405 John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-08-06 14:25 +0100
                Re: XHR giving 405 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 20:20 +0100
                Re: XHR giving 405 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-08-07 21:13 +0200

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